Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

[Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:17:15AM +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Le jeudi 07 avril 2005 à 10:04 +0200, David Schmitt a écrit :
> 
> > Then I would like to exercise my right under the GPL to aquire the source code 
> > for the firmware (and the required compilers, starting with genfw.c which is 
> > mentioned in acenic_firmware.h) since - as far as I know - firmware is coded 
> > today in VHDL, C or some assembler and the days of hexcoding are long gone.
> 
> VHDL is a hardware description language. You don't code firmware in
> VHDL.

If the firmware, or part of it, is uploaded to a fpga you do (or
Verilog instead of VHDL, same difference).

  OG.